Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...

Leonard Peltier, 80, had been serving two life sentences behind bars but will now carry out the remainder of his time at home instead. He had been part of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.

"I'm gonna be so, so happy," said his sister, Betty Ann Peltier Solano. "It's gonna be one of the happiest days in my life. I ...

Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was convicted in 1977 for the murders of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Peltier's story was exposed to MTV viewers in the 1990s in the video for Rage Against the Machine's, "Freedom," a breakout that helped the now-defunct alternative rock band become a voice for ...